Sentences with phrase «slow decay of»

Documenting the passage of time, David Claerbout's drawings for a film examine the slow decay of a thousand years brought upon by natural elements, while Peter Liversidge's Polaroid diptychs focus on subtle atmospheric changes evoked in only a matter of minutes.

The film is, even by Schrader's standards, a bleak endeavor, concerned with the durability of spirituality, its susceptibility to corruption and radicalism, and its place in modern American life: with the slow decay of the planet, as well as with pain, penance, and the validity of suicide and murder.

e. Today's extremely slow decay of 238U (with a half - life of 4.5 billion years) means that its daughters, granddaughters, etc. today form slowly.

But a slow decay of its orbit increases the chances that it will break into large chunks containing toxic batteries and fuel.

Apart from the corrective and developmental persuasive power of ideality there is a «slow decay of physical nature» (FR v).

Not exact matches

This is not news; the city's decay — the slow letting of its industrial heart's blood, the fleeing of more than half its citizens, the blight that has shuttered tens of thousands of homes and businesses — has been covered extensively by the media.

Two other recent studies of older people with MCI have suggested that merely amping up one's workout routine with the right moves could help slow the brain's decay.

Of course, the ideal is to avoid the «slow bleed» of option time decay as much as possible, by taking a highly defensive investment stance only in situations associated with significantly negative market outcomeOf course, the ideal is to avoid the «slow bleed» of option time decay as much as possible, by taking a highly defensive investment stance only in situations associated with significantly negative market outcomeof option time decay as much as possible, by taking a highly defensive investment stance only in situations associated with significantly negative market outcomes.

If death were always preceded, however, as unfortunately on rare occasions it sometimes is, by a period of slow decay, as long in years as the original period of growth to physical maturity, until any kind of personal communion had been rendered virtually impossible, then we would not only welcome death, as a merciful release, but be less inclined to assume the survival of the deceased in an «after - life».

Through His incarnation and by His infinite wisdom and foreknowledge, God slows the death and decay down, and rescues those who are perishing in sin and destruction, but frequently, due the nature of sin, the consequences of abused freedom, and the misuse of power, God can not stop the natural results of rebellion.

His hypothesis is that slow development and often even cultural decay are the fruits of this bifurcation, whereas the inadvertent wedding of these two disparate functions of reason during the last century and a half have produced an unprecedented cultural advance: imagination now focused on the improvement of technique; technique guided, illuminated, and immeasurably enhanced through experiment with imaginative alternatives to the given and the known (FR 42).

Those societies which can not combine reverence for the symbols with freedom of revision, must ultimately decay either from anarchy or from the slow atrophy of a life stifled by useless shadows.

Those societies which can not combine reverence to their symbols with freedom of revision, must ultimately decay either from anarchy, or from the slow atrophy of a life stifled by useless shadows.

«What looks like stability is a relatively slow process of atrophied decay.

MAP modifies the internal atmosphere of a package, usually lowering the amount of oxygen to slow the growth of organisms that would promote product oxidation and decay.

The thing that breaks my heart — the specific thing, not just the overall idea of losing a war with entropy and decay — is the way Ichiro is just a step, or several steps too slow to get the hits he's gotten before.

Sensing they were onto something big, Fischbach and Jenkins scoured the literature and found more reports of radioactive decay enigmatically slowing down and speeding up, results so contrary to expectation that they, too, had largely been tossed into the dust bin of odd results and equipment error.

So his group acquired a sample of radioactive manganese - 54, which decays in just under a year, neither too slow nor too fast to study.

Shock breakout is followed by a long «plateau» phase of almost constant luminosity lasting several months, before a slow exponential decay.

The ascetic diet of slow starvation eliminated body fat — which tends to decay faster than other types of tissue — and built up chemical compounds toxic to bacteria associated with decomposition.

The Toronto model is a mathematical approach to tracking the expansion and contraction of outbreaks — known as Incidence Decay and Exponential Adjustment (IDEA)-- that considers factors that might slow epidemic growth.

Corrosion — a slow process of decay.

«Growing mosquito populations linked to urbanization, DDT's slow decay: Rising temperatures due to climate change were found to have less influence on mosquito populations than land use changes and the decay of residual DDT in the environment.»

The tiny slowing of the two Pioneer spacecraft, known as the Pioneer anomaly and considered by some to challenge general relativity, is probably due to the heat produced by electronics and radioactive decay.

Beta decay is often very slow, and, if the flux of neutrons is high, the nucleus might capture another neutron before there is time for it to undergo decay.

This slowed the decaying process down so that some of the remains (in most cases, only hard material like bone or shell) were preserved for thousands of years.

cardiomyocytes exhibit decreased peak shortening and maximal velocity of shortening / relengthening, prolonged time - to - 90 % relengthening, reduced intracellular calcium release upon electrical stimulus associated with a slowed intracellular calcium decay rate, and significantly higher oxygen levelse, and significantly higher oxygen levels

You might notice that sugar dissolves in hot water faster, or putting food in the refrigerator will slow the rate of decay.

I feel that the decay at least slowed down when we were doing FCLO, and Dr. Christopher's Tooth Powder, plus following as much of the Cure Tooth Decay diet as possdecay at least slowed down when we were doing FCLO, and Dr. Christopher's Tooth Powder, plus following as much of the Cure Tooth Decay diet as possDecay diet as possible.

Because large amounts of calcium are lost in the urine when magnesium is under supplied, the lack of this nutrient indirectly becomes responsible for much rampant tooth decay, poor bone development, osteoporosis and slow healing of broken bones and fractures.

Things in life that are slow: snails, molasses, an iceberg, the radioactive beta decay of certain isotopes... and sometimes, relationships.

Like Children of Men, this seems like a chillingly plausible future, one that is not obliterated by some sudden cataclysm, but rather stuck in a spiral of slow decay.

The portent of certain conclusion hangs heavily over the proceedings, from a prologue that explicates how the magical tablet that imbues life within inanimate museum pieces is discovered to a prophecy about «the End» approaching to the tablet's slow decay, which means the living exhibits will surely become lifeless again.

But in terms of its bleak finality, it makes for one hell of a swan song, operating as a meticulous, concentric metaphor for the slow decay and eventual death of animals, people, families, language, countries, political systems — the whole bit.

It's a tale of possession dressed in the decay of William Friedkin's slow - burning and dread - inducing 1973 masterpiece, only this time the beast is somehow of an even more inexplicable nature.

I continue to be very slow to raise our strikes further, so I don't anticipate a great deal of time decay in that position in the event of a further market advance.

Of course, the ideal is to avoid the «slow bleed» of option time decay as much as possible, by taking a highly defensive investment stance only in situations associated with significantly negative market outcomeOf course, the ideal is to avoid the «slow bleed» of option time decay as much as possible, by taking a highly defensive investment stance only in situations associated with significantly negative market outcomeof option time decay as much as possible, by taking a highly defensive investment stance only in situations associated with significantly negative market outcomes.

The illiquidity of the securitized Subprime Residential Mortgage ABS highlighted the slowness of pricing signals, as matrix pricing was slow to pick up the decay in value, given the sparseness of trades.

In games all about the futility of humanity and slow cycles of decay, Dark Souls series director Hidetaka Miyazaki went to incredible lengths just to shine a little light on the same players he punished so severely.

Name: Raul Description: Ghoul repairman Perk: Regular Maintenance — While Raul is a companion, the Condition of weapons and armor decays 50 % slower.

The very slow but undeniably steady music is a perfect match for the dungeon's dull colour scheme, themes of decay and famous light puzzles..

Witham blends together painting, photography, and interior design to create perfectly balanced compositions where the subjects are caught in slow motion moments of beautiful after - death decay.

Whether abstracting footage culled from 1980s blockbusters like Rambo into a vibrant slurry of sight and sound, or slowing down the introductory credit sequence of the 1970s sitcom Three's Company to a cryptic melancholic pace, as well as reworking the melodramatic prize package revealing moments from the game show, The Price is Right, Murata employs a variety of animation processes to highlight the decay of media narratives.

The longest video ever made at 240 hours, Modern Times Forever uses digital animation to show the slow decay and entropic destruction of a building as imagined over thousands of years, creating a desolating portrait of an architectural symbol.

Rather than perceiving the «destruction» of these portraits as a form of urban decay, Machen sees an evolution taking place; sometimes quick but more often a slow and gradual metamorphosis, wherein the individual subject solicits a variety of responses and actions from anonymous sources.

When the oceans begin to slow the rate of CO2 uptake at saturation point that will futher push atmospheric CO2 even higher, simultaneously the massive amounts of additional CO2 and methane and nitrous oxide etc released from the decay and oxidisation of oceanic living creatures who can not survive in a low ph environment will future ram the nail in the coffin.

It is well known that the majority of carbon stored in vegetation mostly returns to the atmosphere through the processes of decay, fire, and / or slow oxidation.

The function does not decay to zero, but to 21.7 ppm - so calculating a mean is meaningless - although it is clear from my reading that slower processes which operate over thousands of years have been ignored in the equation.

I agree that the multimillennial «tail» of the CO2 decay trajectory is relatively unimportant in its own right, but it is not trivial, because it affects the overall rate of decay that includes processes that occur over many decades or a few centuries involving CO2 mixing into the deep ocean and carbonate buffering, and makes them slower than they would be otherwise.

warrenlb, nothing at that site supports your denial of the S - B basis of climate alarm, supports your neglect of the significance of rapid collisional vs. slow radiative decay of CO2 * in the troposphere, or supports your dismissal of CO2 * radiative decay as the source of stratospheric cooling.